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Kaligan lives with her husband and eight children in Maguindanao on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Maguindanao, which literally means ‘people of the flood plains,’ is prone to climate-related disasters and has been seriously affected by conflict between the Government and the Moro Islamic...

Humanitarian partners in Haiti are bracing for an increase in new cases of cholera as the hurricane season gets underway. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), heavy rains and flooding could contaminate water sources and trigger a surge of up to 4,000 new cholera cases per week in the coming months. At the...

Thousands of families have fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) eastern province of North Kivu due to renewed fighting since the beginning of April. Many of the displaced people urgently need basic aid such as food, water, shelter and healthcare.
As the crisis unfolds, aid workers...

Humanitarian agencies in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing basic support as the number of displaced people across the country reaches 2 million for the first time in nearly three years.
Over the past nine months, the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in DRC has grown steadily,...

The Philippines is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. One third of its population of 94.9 million people live below the poverty line and are vulnerable to the typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that plague the country.
In 2011, there were 21 natural disasters in the Philippines. They...